The Ice 3(B) showing is located on the east side of the Bear River Ridge, about 2.4 kilometres northwest of the confluence of Bitter Creek and the Bear River and 550 metres south-southeast of Mount Shorty Stevenson, 14 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by northwest to north-northwest striking, folded volcanics and sediments of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation(?) (Hazelton Group) (Open File 1987-22). Near the showing, the hostrocks comprise deformed conglomerate, volcanic breccia, red and green sandstone, tuffaceous sandstone and siltstone. Narrow, northwest to north-northwest trending dacitic dikes, containing 1-5 per cent hornblende, cut these rocks (Assessment Report 20429).

The rocks are bleached and altered in several locations. The alteration, comprising silica, sericite and disseminations and veins of pyrite, appears to be associated with a northwest trending zone of folding and shearing (Assessment Report 20429).

The showing comprises a 0.7 metre wide, north-northwest trending quartz vein that dips 70 degrees west. The vein contains up to 5 per cent galena and sphalerite and occurs in an altered area, 200 by 250 metres, of conglomerate and volcanic breccia. The alteration includes grey-black quartz (due to finely disseminated carbonaceous material) and disseminations and veins of pyrite, sphalerite, galena and tetrahedrite (Assessment Report 20429). A chip(?) sample from the vein assayed 896.0 grams per tonne silver, 7.56 per cent zinc, 2.93 grams per tonne gold, 1.35 per cent lead and 0.01 per cent copper across 0.7 metre (Assessment Report 20429).

A hole was drilled to test the alteration zone but failed to reach the target depth but did intersect two mineralized zones. The better zone, comprising grey-black quartz with galena and tetrahedrite, occurred at the end of the hole. Samples assayed 343.0 grams per tonne silver, 1.79 grams per tonne gold, 9.24 per cent zinc and 0.37 per cent lead across 0.2 metre (Assessment Report 20429).

Work History

The Ice 1-4 claims were recorded in 1986. In 1990, Navarre Resources Corp. conducted geological mapping, trenching, sampling, soil geochemical surveys, a pulse-EM survey and diamond drilling (1 hole, 99 metres). The showing was described that year. In 2010, geological mapping, geophysical surveying and rock and soil sampling was carried out on the MC claims on behalf of REC Minerals Corp. and included 95 soil and 22 rock samples and total field magnetometer surveying along 1.9 kilometres. In 2017 and 2019, Bonanza Mining Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and ground geophysical (induced polarization, magnetic and gravity) surveys on the area as the MC property.